July 12, 20223 yr After finally getting stressed enough about loosing my data, I've decided to build a mini unraid server. I've got a little Lenovo ThinkCentre (i5 4590T, 12Gb Ram) and I was thinking of popping a couple of USB3 External Drives onto it, combine them into a pool, then use lucky backup to keep my main servers data backed up. In total I currently have about 20Tb to backup, so was thinking of buying 2x 12Tb hard drives and some enclosures, and using them. I plan to run Luckybackup once a week and hopefully even setup to have the backup server be off most of the time and only turn on for backups and then shut down when complete. I have two main questions: 1. Does this seem like a reasonable approach for a novice? (In particular reffering to using the Drives externally via USB3) 2. Due to the drives only firing up once a week and the backups being incremental, do I specifically need NAS drives or can i get away with regular drives and save a few bucks? thanks for any help! Sam
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